portupgrade fu... AKA there has to be a better way

[Matthew Seaman]

Doug Poland wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm upgrading a server from 6.4 to 7.1 and am going through the relative
> pain of re-compiling all the ports.  It's not as easy "portupgrade -af"
> because of all the special handling instructions of many ports.
> 
> I have not found an "easy" way to keep track of the ports that need to
> be forcibly updated but have not undergone a version change.  Because I
> approach the upgrade in steps, I need to run portupgrade several times
> but want to exclude stuff already compiled under 7.x.
> 
> 
> What I need is a command like:
> 
>   # portupgrade -af -x "already compiled on 7"
> 
> 
> Suggestions, comments, rebukes welcome.

Assuming you start the upgrade today, then:

   # portupgrade -af -x ">=2009-04-04"

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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